What is your opinion of the Patriots kneeling for the anthem?

I don't like it

I support it

I don't care

John Tomase

John Tomase joins WEEI.com after nine years at the Boston Herald, including five as Red Sox columnist. A Mansfield native and Tufts grad, he has also written for the Sporting News, Baseball America, Pro Football Weekly, and Men's Fitness. He grew up on Steve Grogan, Ray Bourque, and Larry Bird, and will always believe Hagler beat Sugar Ray.

Eduardo Rodriguez is giving Red Sox manager John Farrell something to think about. Two weeks ago, colleague Rob Bradford took a first stab at predicting the postseason roster and Rodriguez wasn't a part of it. But since then, the young left-hander has made a compelling case for inclusion, with his...

Since he clearly has nothing better to do, President Donald Trump on Friday night lambasted NFL players who protest the national anthem, calling anyone who does so a "son of a bitch" who should be fired during a rally in Alabama. On Saturday morning, Patriots safety Devin McCourty took to Twitter...

Red Sox left-hander Chris Sale will finish no worse than second in the American League Cy Young race, but that doesn't mean he's finishing the season on a roll. The award that was once Sale's to lose now looks like it has ticked into the column of former winner Corey Kluber, the Indians ace who...

The Red Sox offense isn't exactly cruising into the postseason. One day after getting shut down by anonymous A's right-hander Jharel Cotton, the Red Sox needed six innings to figure out his teammate, right-hander Daniel Gossett. They didn't pile on until they reached the A's bullpen, but with Drew...

Over 24 Hall of Fame seasons, Dennis Eckersley took the bad with the good. He closed out a World Series. He surrendered one of the most famous home runs in the history of the Fall Classic. He won a Cy Young Award. He led the league in home runs allowed. He partied at Studio 54. He battled...

Eduardo Nunez, so pivotal to a second-half surge that has pushed the Red Sox back into first place, has a sprained posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and will miss at least a week. That's a worse prognosis than the Red Sox expected when Nunez left Saturday's 9-0 victory against the Rays...

It never gets old. The Patriots unveiled their fifth Super Bowl banner in style on Thursday night, with master of ceremonies Mark Wahlberg welcoming players back from each prior team, and then introducing injured wide receiver Julian Edelman representing last year's crown. "We're just a modern day...

The blockbuster that brought Kyrie Irving to Boston focused understandably on the inclusion of All-Star guard Isaiah Thomas, who had led the Celtics to the conference finals just weeks after the death of his sister. But it turns out the deal was no less emotional for forward Jae Crowder, who...

Their reputation battered by the embarrassment of signing-stealing allegations earlier in the day, the Red Sox took the field on Tuesday night looking to put a more troubling story to bed. It took a while. A loooong while. But they eventually delivered. The last-place Blue Jays shut them out for...

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred sounds like he wishes the Yankees and Red Sox had privately handled their dueling accusations of electronic sign stealing, too. Speaking in a prescheduled visit to Fenway Park that just happened to end up coinciding with a New York Times report of MLB...